The stench of decay on the German Left, 1932–2009 Jerzy Sobotta IN MAY OF 2009 SCIENTISTS IN BERLIN claimed to have unearthed the corpse of the martyred revolutionary leader Rosa Luxemburg. Stored in the cellar of a hospital, the corpse had neither a head, nor feet, nor hands. The stump of a corpse of Rosa [...]
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Rosa Luxemburg’s corpse
Nothing Left to say: a critique of the Guardian’s coverage of the 2008 Mumbai attacks
Spencer A. Leonard [This article has been reprinted in Mainstream Weekly] Deep historical precedents However sincere its backers or belligerent its enemies, the “War on Terror” is not and cannot become anti-Islamist. This is not because, as some think, there is no Islamist or Taliban-style fascism on the receiving end of America’s War on Terror. [...]
Catastrophe, historical memory and the Left: 60 years of Israel-Palestine
The Platypus Historians Group The contours of the present day Middle East have been shaped by a mid -20th century triptych of genocide and ethnic cleansing. The first panel in this triptych is the “Holocaust” (“Shoah” in Hebrew, “Khurbn” in Yiddish) the systematic murder of approximately two-thirds of European Jewry by the Nazis in 1941–1945. [...]
